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took Sundowners (travellers) across that way to save feeding them for a week or two.

We took not only the tail board, or front board, but the side boards off the spring dray, & the horses dragged it across the good crossing with a long rope. It turned over a few times.

The KOLONGA & GIN GIN creeks were crossable, & nothing much happened till we got to Walla, where the BURNETT was still a banker, & old CHARLIE WHITE had been there for six weeks with a mob of fats. Nothing for it but to go on to MINGO crossing, but it was no better. That good old bushwhacker WILLOUGHBY ELIOT let us go through YENDA.  A German settler on a piebald horse, that the bullocks kept a long way away from, showed us the way over the range with the dray, which Big Bill, even then a good GYPPIE, drove . George could just drive along a level road, & when he came to a bit of a rise

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